Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.5559/pi.17.32.01
The Issues of Statistical Monitoring of Emigration
Nenad Pokos
; Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar
Ivo Turk
orcid.org/0000-0001-6090-1327
; Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar
Abstract
It could be said that Croatia is “traditionally” an emigration country. Emigration processes in Croatia have been going on continually for over 150 years. With a more or less intensive emigration, since its independence, Croatia has also been experiencing a natural depopulation. Such a situation has resulted in the deep demographic crisis that the country is currently in. In recent times, since joining the European Union, we’ve been witnesses to the newest emigration wave from Croatia, as Croatian citizens have gained access to the job market of almost all EU countries. It is known that there are issues related to how correct the number of emigrated persons is, as shown by the official Croatian statistics. In this paper, we compare the official Croatian statistics data to the statistics of selected countries that Croatian citizens have most emigrated to. The goal of this paper is to find and analyze the discrepancy between the official Croatian statistics about the number of emigrated persons and the official data about immigrated persons in the countries where Croatian citizens emigrated to the most.
Keywords
migration motivation; migration theories; migration waves; youth mobility
Hrčak ID:
299856
URI
Publication date:
1.4.2023.
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